Sentences with phrase «where access to electricity»

If you're planning a trip where access to electricity might be challenging, it could be a good idea to bring extra battery kits.

That's enough energy to run 10 cell phones or two computers at once, which could be good news for people who live in countries where access to electricity is spotty.

In places where access to electricity and other infrastructure is far from guaranteed, this system aims to sterilize the grimy bits.

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In a personal blog post announcing his plans, Camp spoke of recent travels to Kenya, where he connected with people living without access to basic services like clean water, food and electricity.

The need of batteries is entirely dependent upon you that is if you choose to travel out of home or somewhere where there is no access to electricity.

Heated springs and geysers up to three miles underground can be accessed by special wells that bring the hot water (or steam from it) up to the surface where it can be used directly for heat or indirectly to generate electricity by powering rotating turbines.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

In Afghanistan, for example, the country report suggests that there is little critical analysis of the media, and issues of access to media and information rise especially in rural areas, where newspapers are not published or distributed and multimedia materials such as CDs and DVDs can not be used in schools due to limited access to electricity.

For many of them, school is the only place where they have consistent access to heat, electricity and regular meals — making it all the more important to make them feel safe and taken care of.

And where there wasn't electricity — for example, in a pilot program in Ghana — they'd partner with other organizations to install a solar cell, plus a satellite for internet access.

Kheterpal says on the Kickstarter page, «In places like Kenya, where 75 % of the population live without access to electricity, having the ability to read at night or charge up a mobile phone gives people the chance of a better education and also access to services like the revolutionary mobile phone banking system, M - PESA.»

A paradigm shift is under way in the developing world, where billions of people still live without access to electricity (around 1.2 billion) and / or clean cooking facilities (around 2.7 billion).

Major corporations now threaten to vote with their feet, refusing to locate where they can't access electricity from renewable sources.

Currently, around 15 percent of the world's population lacks access to electricity, mostly in rural areas of the developing world, where providing power infrastructure is more challenging.

In a country where more than 300 million people lack even the most basic access to electricity, solar power can be among the quickest and easiest ways to get power into, for example, rural villages.

One of the regions where universal access to clean energy remains a pressing challenge is sub-Saharan Africa, where roughly 590 million people lack access to electricity.

MW: Well, I don't know about intimidate, but I think we have to recognise that what's on the checklist of a mayor in a city where a third of the population don't yet have access to electricity, or at least a form of electricity, and maybe 10 - 20 % are living in slum housing, trying to save the world for the benefit of future generations isn't top of mind.

This is sorely needed in a country where nearly 300 million people do not have access to electricity.

Secondary school education was available to 95 % of the population only in 37 out of 117 countries, and out of the 151 countries in the sample, there were only 59 where 95 % of the people had access to electricity.

Geothermal electricity generation is in operation in 24 countries worldwide and while it offers a more dependable source of power than solar and wind - since it keys into the constant energy coming from within the earth rather than the inconsistent energy from the elements around the planet - it is limited geographically to areas where access to geothermal sources in possible.

MOVE System's Simply Grid pedestals provide access to electricity in public locations where it would not typically be available.

Even in places like Cambodia, where decentralised electricity systems play a marginal role, they are crucial in bringing access to 240,000 people in the most marginal communities.

It's one thing to destroy coal in favor of more expensive energy in an advanced economy where consumers have more disposable income to absorb the blow of rising energy costs, but to deny developing countries access to electricity is an absurd form of «liberalism.»

Beyond trying to make a profit, MKOPA serves an important role in rural Africa where there is poor access to the grid: Its solar home systems are the leading way to electrify rural areas in Kenya where more than 30 % of Kenyans still lack electricity access.

Energy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant plague.

In a country where 244 million have no electricity and 819 no access to clean cooking facilities, it is impossible to find a solution without coal being part of the energy mix — Coal is essential to global efforts to achieving universal energy access.»

In a world where up to half of the population either has no access to electricity whatsoever, or only severely limited access, a home energy device powered by humans could have a big impact in the developing world, and one philanthropist is willing to put his money where his mouth is in order to potentially change the lives of billions.

Off - grid solar solutions have really begun to take off in Sub-Saharan Africa, where approximately 600 million people lack access to electricity, and particularly in East Africa.